B3 Media TalentLab XR

Comfort Arthur

Animator / Writer / Director

Comfort Arthur is a British-born Ghanaian award-winning animator, illustrator, and visual artist. She trained at the Royal College of Arts before moving to Ghana to set up The Comfy Studio. Her short film Black Barbie has been an international hit and has screened in more than 50 film festivals across the world and has won several awards. In 2020, she released her first children's picture book under the same name. She is the first Ghanaian animator to win the African Academy Movie awards for best animation for her web series I'm Living in Ghana Get Me Out of Here. She has worked as the Festival Director for FUPiTOONS FESTiVAL, Africa's first film festival dedicated to short-form animation for kids. She also enjoys teaching animation and has worked with Ladima Film Academy to help facilitate animation workshops for women in Africa. In 2022, she collaborated with a nonprofit organization called Black Thrive, working with young kids to explore the impact of mental health on their age group. Comfort Arthur has also worked as the Episodic director for Cbeebies Animated preschool show JoJo and Gran Gran in the United Kingdom.

Marcus Joseph 

Musician / Spoken-Word Artist

 Marcus Joseph is a musician and spoken-word artist. His debut album is Beyond the Dome (Jazz Refreshed), and he has played at Love Supreme, the Manchester Jazz Festival and We Out Here. His project “Jazz Maze VR” is an interactive, immersive, autobiographical comic book brought to life through his compelling music and spoken word, and the theatrical imagination of BetaJester.

RCL Graham (Writer / Director) with “Astronauts & Afropuffs”,  an immersive, reward-driven environment that brings the gamer into the Black protagonist’s Afrofuturistic experience as they launch a spacecraft to help complete her mission.

Wanda Hu (Architect / Moving-Image Artist) with “Sacred Space”, a location-based XR journey that enables users to experience praying in digital spiritual spaces of various faiths.

Emilie Dubois (Creative Producer) with “Cric Crac Tales”, a table-top augmented reality experience about Caribbean myths & legends and the tradition of oral storytelling. This AR experience comprises a series of 3D animated stories.

Lara Kobeissi (3D Artist) with “ Nazar // VR”, a multi-sensory personalised and immersive mixed-reality experience that explores one of the Middle East’s oldest and most notorious superstitions: the Evil Eye.

Leann O’Kasi (Actor/ Writer) with ‘Just Passing’, a short film and VR experience that explores loneliness and disconnection in big cities. The story touches on themes of mental health, immigration and human connection. (Leann was also selected for the BFI Shorts School Lab, where she has been developing the short-form script ‘Just Passing’).